Tuesday, March 11, 2008

UPDATE: Jon Bon Jovi

According to the good gossips at Page Six, ridiculously rich rock star Jon BonJovi has finally managed to sell his matronly looking Upper West Side condo/pied a terre for $5,484,000. The 4 bedroom unit is located on the 28th floor of the The Park Millenniumbuilding on West 67th Street and was long listed by the New Jersey based BonJovi at an optimistic $6,950,000 (or lease at $30,000/month).

Although Mister BonJovi accepted $1,500,000 less than he was asking for the condo, there will be no tears shed by Your Mama since property records reveal he paid just $1,850,000 for the place back in 1998. Besides, Jon Boy's already moved on to a much more glammy and seriously swank six bedroom and 6.5 bathroom Soho penthouse for which he forked over a blistering $24,000,000 back in June of 2007.

When not camped out in their nifty new urban digs, the Bon Jovi family shack up on the 15+ acre waterfront estate on ritzy Navesink River Road in Red Bank New Jersey they've owned since late 1997.

*Note: Be sure to click through to the photos and floor plans children because Mister Bon Jovi's massive Mercer Street penthouse with its huge terraces is truly jaw dropping.

41 comments:

Love the penthouse. It is very livable. The top floor, with the terraces, is especially appealing because it is effectively an entire master suite. You could hole up there and leave every one else on the floor below.

As for the condo he just sold, it is boring but he still made a profit on it and good for him. I can't hate Jon Bon Jovi. He's pretty much stayed faithful to his wife, who was his high school sweetheart. He has branded himself as well as any corporation. He has multiple business ventures that appear to be successful. It's just...he so wee. He's like a pocket rock star.

Oh my! From the most boring apartment in Manhattan (those living room chairs!) to a very cool pad, indeed. I'm not wild about any of the furnishings, but the terraces, the outdoor dining patio, the logically designed kitchen. I'm all a-twitter.

Now all I can say is cut your hair, JBJ. Oh well, you can take the boy our of New Jersey... Actually, his hair will look fetching blowing in the breeze on all those terraces.

McZowie that is a gorgeous penthouse!! If there was ever a home that could draw me away from San Diego, well that is it. I always think of New York as crowded with odd apartments with no outdoor space. I mean odd like multi-million dollar condos with a stacked washer/dryer in the kitchen. And a "balcony" that can't seat more than two people. Plus winter. Ick. But this condo has those wonderful terraces, and plenty of space to entertain. That makes this condo worth every single penny!

No laziness allowed. Though with that penthouse view, it would be hard to focus.

Oh, I won't make any generalizations. Shorter men can be incredibly sexy, too. Height is just a primal instinct for me towards feeling protected, and that is very sexy, too.

Moving on, before we dissect my crushes on other inappropriate rockers and actors, I do give JBJ a lot of credit for buying this place. It is really stunning, and as was commented on earlier, it could turn me into a New Yorker (at least some of the time).

Now our JBJ is a family man, so one would have to employ alcohol in order to get him into bed; then, with the help of gravity, the blood rushes to the head most men normally think with, and there's you're window of opportunity.

But . . .

Once you get them down on the bed, gravity can betray you and enough blood makes it back to their brain; at that point, they sometimes change their mind. I hate that.

At that point, there's nothing left to do but untie 'em and let 'em go.

Wow. The Soho penthouse is amazing. What a fantastic floor plan; those terraces, the glass, two kitchens (!)...unbelieveable. So many unusual features like the little bike room, and the tiny water closet in master bedroom 2. Very interesting. I am crazy for it all.

I love this.. the first NY place I've felt this way about. I'm an outdoor sort and this appeals to me in that way. Question, though: what do you do about window treatments? The sun must beat down fiercely in those large windows so what do you recommend?

About Kid Rock... oh hell no. I've always thought it fortunate that people have such varied tastes because otherwise we'd all be going after the same mates.

Livin' on a Prayer, really that whole wink-wink Slippery When Wet album, still reminds me of all the townie girls with really big hair who snapped their gum and pronounced Worcester Wuh-stah. Good times.

His new digs look cool enough, but without a better sense of the spatial relationship between the rooms, I can't declare unequivocal love. And I'm with LGB that the windows in the gym might bug.

On a related note, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported this Sunday that Richie Sambora just paid $3.58-million for a 52nd floor condo in Two Liberty Place in Philly...though I'm personally skeptical as to whether he actually intends to live there or if this is one of those promos where a slow-selling luxury condo place pays or gives a place to a celeb to drum up interest...FYI, 2 Liberty, formerly the 2nd (now 3rd) tallest Building in Philadelphia, was a perennially half-empty office tower that last year they decided to convert the upper 15 or 20 or so floors to luxury condos...

Along with the film Sandpiper mentioned, with triple polarized glass and sheers you can cut up to I believe 90% of the heat gain without having to have heavy window treatments. You actually might not need any window treatments, except for desired privacy.

Keep in mind that the floor plans do not show what shadows may be cast upon the apartment from neighboring buildings, as well as its own overhangs.

Despite the open floor plan, it's only in early morning and late evening that the sun is low enough in the sky to penetrate deeply into the rooms; at high noon, with the sun directly overhead, it would probably shine no more than a foot or two into the rooms, if at all, depending upon which is the southern exposure. From what I can tell, the only deep penetration of light is in the master and the family room, indicating an either eastern or western exposure.

Finally, although they are hard to see on the plans, there are dotted lines on the master, dining and living room terraces that may indicate the placement of retractable awnings.

I was just on some auction sites and yes folks are leaving their homes in droves and the prices are in the 100k range to start but they are way out in bum f egypt, who wants to live out there ? in the desert weather, away from the city, rancho cugomanga, corona, hesperia, these places are 2 hours outside of LA with no traffic and 5 hours with, and a guy from BH is holding the auctions how funny is that ?

I guess what they say is true, location location location that is what will drive a price up and keep it there on homes in prime areas, malibu or sunset plaza/doheny hills area, nanhattan.

Yes they may come down some but now I do not think they will have a huge price drop, why ???

Location Location Location and that is what the rich will pay top dollar for.

Well, in my first confessional post of saying that I found Kid Rock mildly attractive, I did say I'd have to douse myself in Lysol just for having the thought because of the Pam factor. I do, however, still find him sexier than JBJ. Could have something to do with having all my high school friends positively squeeing over him in 1986 and me thinking, "He's got a mighty fine mullet, aye-yep."

I loved this apartment since I first saw the listing. I recall it was definitely one of the highest prices ever for a downtown apartment. It's the top floor of 158 Mercer, plus the glass penthouse addition. 158 Mercer is the west side of the same building at 583 Broadway. Since this is labeled as 158, I am pretty sure the Master Suite 2 and the Main Terrace face west; therefore the MBR and Family Rooms would face south. This is pretty high up for the neighborhood, so there are light and views. Apartments lower down have no views or light anywhere other than west, facing Mercer.

Bentley I liked Soho over 20 years ago,it's just to crowded and full of chain stores now and on the weekend you can't move on the sidewalk,so no not a big fan of Soho.I try to avoid it. Oh and what's with the anon going on about some housing estate going bankrupt?This site is about celebrity real estate not cardboard boxes in the desert!

I'd love to know which house on Navesink River Road is his...I think Navesink River Road is one of the most beautiful residential drives in the whole country, for Sunday driving appeal it could rank right up there with South Ocean Blvd in Palm Beach or Bellevue Avenue in Newport...